Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:29:08 -0400 From: jim@mailman-hosting.com To: Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com>, William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sudo,pkg,Mailman all broken after upgrade from 10.3 to 11.2 Message-ID: <1ad541c0eb960ab8bf970f8461fef4fb@mailman-hosting.com> In-Reply-To: <20180913153344.GA50367@gmail.com> References: <CAFsnNZ%2BKM=D5TcyVXrHNPo53GDbkrdc8cFL9uxNGEBFzpQk18g@mail.gmail.com> <CAFsnNZL5xNDBNT=HdR5TOFyzaj%2B9MKr=K1CCWv2aCKKT8U=9OA@mail.gmail.com> <20180913153344.GA50367@gmail.com>
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On 2018-09-13 11:33, Matt Smith wrote: > On Sep 13 09:29, William Dudley wrote: >> replying to my own questions. >> >> The upgrade directions didn't state that I had to run pkg-static to >> upgrade >> pkg, >> and then do pkg upgrade. They just said "rebuild ports", of which I >> have >> none. >> >> So some googling revealed the missing instructions, and I am running >> pkg >> upgrade >> as I write this. >> >> Here, so the answers will be found by a search, is the missing >> documentation: >> >> After the final freebsd-update install and reboot, do this: >> >> pkg-static -f install pkg >> pkg upgrade (or possibly "pkg -f upgrade") >> > > This is the problem. You run freebsd-update three times. The final > time deletes the old shared libraries and binaries that were on the > old system and are no longer on the new system. > > What you should do is run it twice, then run pkg upgrade to reinstall > all the packages, and then run it the final time. > > The workaround if you do what you did is to use pkg-static instead, so > it's good that you found this out. But I agree it should be mentioned > in the upgrade instructions. This happens quite often. This is in the handbook at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html in 23.2.3.2. "Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade".
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